{"id":4728,"date":"2007-12-17T12:30:53","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T04:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2019-08-02T21:05:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T13:05:33","slug":"symantec-backup-exec-11d-oracle-agent-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2007\/12\/symantec-backup-exec-11d-oracle-agent-is-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"Symantec Backup Exec 11d Oracle Agent is broken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was installing Symantec Backup Exec 11d to back up a bunch of servers with Oracle database.  After several fruitless sessions to get the Oracle Agent to work, I logged a call to Symantec Support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The good folks there tried really hard.  Change logon accounts, recreate login accounts, checked RMAN, run scripts.  Escalated to 2nd level, third level, from India I ended up in the UK!  The service engineer did another round of data collection and testing to no success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On another day, I called up to follow up on the progress.  This time I ended up in Australia!  Never mind about the bouncing around the world because this eagle-eyed service engineer decided to check the RMAN error against Symantec database and found that the Oracle Agent is broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) backups fail intermittently with error: ORA-19506: failed to create sequential file <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The link is <a href=\"http:\/\/seer.entsupport.symantec.com\/docs\/288361.htm\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was installing Symantec Backup Exec 11d to back up a bunch of servers with Oracle database. After several fruitless sessions to get the Oracle Agent to work, I logged a call to Symantec Support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-backup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4730,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions\/4730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}